Serviss, Garrett Putman 1851-1929

Overview

Works:	59 works in 211 publications in 3 languages and 2,719 library holdings
Genres:	Fiction Handbooks, manuals, etc Juvenile works Interviews Popular works
Classifications:	PS3537.E68, 520

Publication Timeline

1880 |

|2020

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Publications about Garrett Putman Serviss

Publications by Garrett Putman Serviss

Publications by Garrett Putman Serviss, published posthumously.

Most widely held works about Garrett Putman Serviss

Garrett P. Serviss, one who loved the stars by Clyde Fisher ( Book )
Star and planet finder : by Barritt-Serviss Company ( )

Most widely held works by Garrett Putman Serviss

The second deluge by Garrett Putman Serviss ( )
14 editions published between 1911 and 2011 in English and held by 779 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
When Cosmo Versal, a modern day Noah, predicts a world wide flood, he is ridiculed by everyone

A Columbus of space by Garrett Putman Serviss ( Book )
10 editions published between 1911 and 1974 in English and held by 264 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Astronomy with the naked eye; a new geography of the heavens, with descriptions and charts of constellations, stars, and planets by Garrett Putman Serviss ( Book )
11 editions published between 1890 and 2013 in English and held by 222 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Astronomy with an opera-glass: a popular introduction to the study of the starry heavens with the simplest of optical instruments, with maps and directions to facilitate the recognition of the constellations and the principal stars visible to the naked eye by Garrett Putman Serviss ( Book )
36 editions published between 1888 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 209 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Curiosities of the sky, a popular presentation of the great riddles and mysteries of astronomy by Garrett Putman Serviss ( Book )
3 editions published in 1909 in English and held by 124 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Round the year with the stars, the chief beauties of the starry heavens as seen with the naked eye by Garrett Putman Serviss ( Book )
6 editions published between 1910 and 2010 in English and held by 120 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The moon metal by Garrett Putman Serviss ( Book )
7 editions published between 1900 and 2012 in English and held by 105 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
For thousands of years, human civilization has pegged its currencies and barter systems to stores of precious metals. What would happen if our interstellar explorations uncovered infinite stores of gold, silver, platinum, and more? That's the thought-provoking premise of The Moon Metal, a tale from Garrett P. Serviss, an astronomer and science-fiction pioneer who blazed trails in both fields in the early twentieth century

Pleasures of the telescope : an illustrated guide for amateur astronomers and a popular description of the chief wonders of the heavens for general readers by Garrett Putman Serviss ( Book )
7 editions published between 1901 and 2009 in English and held by 103 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Other worlds; their nature, possibilities and habitability in the light of the latest discoveries by Garrett Putman Serviss ( Book )
10 editions published between 1901 and 2006 in English and held by 102 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Edison's conquest of Mars by Garrett Putman Serviss ( Book )
12 editions published between 1898 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 99 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Though he first gained acclaim as a popular lecturer and public speaker who traveled the country teaching audiences about astronomy, author Garrett P. Serviss also produced a body of engrossing science fiction. Edison's Conquest of Mars was heavily influenced by H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, and it's packed with interstellar action and adventure

Astronomy in a nutshell, the chief facts and principles explained in popular language for the general reader and for schools by Garrett Putman Serviss ( Book )
5 editions published between 1912 and 2007 in English and held by 75 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Wunder der Schöpfung by Hanns Walter Kornblum ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2009 in German and held by 70 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Wunder der Schopfung, also known as Our heavenly bodies, is an extraordinary, fascinating "Kulturfilm" about the world and the universe as known during the 1920s. 15 special effects experts and nine cameramen were involved in the production of this film which combines documentary scenes, historical documents, fiction elements, animation scenes and educational impact. It is beautifully colored, using tinting and toning in a very elaborate way. Some visual ideas in the sequences with a space shuttle visiting different planets in the universe seem to have been the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: a space odyssey

The moon; a popular treatise by Garrett Putman Serviss ( Book )
6 editions published between 1907 and 1918 in English and held by 64 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Eloquence, counsel on the art of public speaking; with many illustrative examples showing the style and method of famous orators by Garrett Putman Serviss ( Book )
6 editions published in 1912 in English and held by 64 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The story of the moon; a description of the scenery of the lunar world as it would appear to a visitor spending a month on the moon by Garrett Putman Serviss ( Book )
5 editions published in 1928 in English and held by 57 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Einstein theory of relativity by Garrett Putman Serviss ( Book )
3 editions published between 1923 and 2003 in English and held by 56 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A Columbus of Space by Garrett Putman Serviss ( )
5 editions published between 1909 and 2012 in English and held by 28 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Just as Christopher Columbus's journeys to the new world changed human civilization forever, so too would the power to travel freely across the universe alter the parameters of our collective existence. Garrett P. Serviss's tale of a group of intrepid explorers who harness what they call ""inter-atomic energy"" to travel from Earth to Venus is a fun, fast read

Curiosities of the Sky by Garrett Putman Serviss ( )
4 editions published between 1909 and 2012 in English and held by 23 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Long before figures like Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson simplified astronomy for popular consumption, Garrett P. Serviss was traveling the United States with an early version of a PowerPoint presentation to teach people about eclipses, the orbit of the planets, and other celestial concepts. This basic introduction to the subject is simple and enjoyable enough to ensure that science-phobes or young readers won't be turned off

Edison's conquest of Mars by Garrett Putman Serviss ( Book )
3 editions published between 2005 and 2010 in English and held by 22 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Tian wen qian shuo by Garrett Putman Serviss ( Book )
5 editions published between 1935 and 1970 in Chinese and held by 21 WorldCat member libraries worldwide